We'll get started on the second hour of our testimony. I know everyone's excited that we're all back in person and chatting.
Today we have officials from three different departments joining us.
From the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food, we have Natasha Kim, the assistant deputy minister of the strategic policy branch, and Marco Valicenti, director general of the innovation programs directorate.
From the Department of the Environment, we have John Moffet, the assistant deputy minister, environmental protection branch. I believe he's coming. I don't know, but we'll work with the clerk on that. Also, we have Judy Meltzer, the director general of carbon market bureau, environmental protection branch.
From the Department of Finance, we have Miodrag Jovanovic, assistant deputy minister, tax policy branch; Gervais Coulombe, senior director, excise taxation and legislation, sales tax division, tax policy branch; and Jenna Robbins, senior director of strategic planning and policy, business income tax division, tax policy branch.
There are lot of different titles there and my apologies to some of our lovely civil servants if I haven't quite gotten your last names correct. We're happy to have you here on an obviously important topic.
We are going to have five minutes for opening statements. My understanding is that we'll hear from Finance and from Agriculture. Environment is here to answer questions, but is not going to be providing opening remarks.
I'm going to start with Mr. Jovanovic from Finance.
You have up to five minutes. It's over to you.